Objectives & Assessments

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Objectives: Students Will Be Able To…
1. View the connections between historical events and literature.
2. View the way that intolerance has progressed throughout history from genocides to modern day human rights issues.
3. Become familiar with/understand the issues surrounding many human rights movements.
4. Maintain an ‘intolerance journal’
5. Discuss the theme of intolerance as it relates to an individual’s differences.
6. Examine & analyze texts of many different genres (films, documentaries, memoirs, non-fiction/news reports, etc) relating to intolerance.
7. Participate in groups to research various genres.
8. Complete a multi-genre research project.
9. Utilize Wikispaces as an online format to collaborate with others


Formative Assessments
Reading, Writing, Listening and Viewing Activities
· Read Night by Elie Wiesel
· Read “I Have a Dream Speech”
· Discuss the rhetorical strategies of the speech as a genre
· View video on “Cyberbullying”
· View clips of Elie Wiesel returning ‘home.’
· Read non-fiction article on Sudan.
· View Band of Brothers “Why We Fight”
· View clips from Mad Men (relates to treatment of women)
· Read “Two Little Boys”
· Maintain ‘intolerance journal’
· Discussions/lessons about Form = Audience + Purpose
· Participate in 3 Blind Mice activity
· Participate in discussions of intolerance/tolerance, diversity, discrimination, and human rights.
· Participate in discussions of the texts.
· Speed-dating discussion activity
· Learn Allport’s 5 prejudices
· Create a representation of one of the five prejudices.
· Create a “Tolerance means…” visual to be posted in the classroom
· Maintain an online site with group for research project
· Present an artifact to class based on your research and engage students in discussion, as a group.
· Lessons on safe internet practices.
· Lessons on MLA format.

Ongoing Skill Development:
· Read independently
· Read aloud
· Participate in small & large group discussion
· Virtual discussions
· Develop skills in different genres
· Writing to an audience
· Understand Form=Audience+Purpose
· Presentation/communication skills
· MLA citation
· Maintaining a journal
Summative Assessment:
  • Group research project: research a movement, genocide, incident of intolerance.
  • Collaborate using a Wikispace.
  • Teach to class using an artifact of research and open-ended questions to engage students in discussion.
  • Use different perspectives to create a piece—each member of group should represent a different party in the event.